TAW,
You can think anything you like. That doesn't change anything.
I have yet to hear one single shred of evidence---not speculation, not wishful thinking, not completely unsubstantiated assertion, not imagination, not presumption, not assumption, but EVIDENCE---that carpet bombing does what you imagine it does. I can cite a ton of evidence to the contrary. Bombing just does not strike fear and terror, but tends to habituate the bomb-ees, and DECREASE fear. They get used to it. Worse, it strengthens resolve, pisses them off, galvanizes them, makes them increasingly willing to endure more and more hardship. In short, it not only doesn't destroy them, rather it tends to make them an even more formidable enemy. I won't belabor the point further, other than to point out two things. First, the history of warfare and bombing has repeatedly and compellingly shown this to be true beyond reasonable contention.
Second, the most recent example (albeit not "carpet bombing" in the strict sense) only underscores the validity of this: intentionally flying jet/firebombs into huge buildings causing those buildings to burn and collapse and kill thousands should "strike panic and terror" into the hearts of Americans.
....Didn't quite have that effect, did it?
WS |
